Wednesday, November 21, 2012

How the Grinch tried to steal Thanksgiving

Bobby Eustace, a firefighter out of Ladder 27 in the Bronx, has been serving free hot food to the homeless and displaced and to relief workers and volunteers in Breezy Point, Queens, since two days after the hurricane hit.

On Sunday, Eustace and dozens of fellow firefighter volunteers served 800 free hot meals from a steamy Army tent in this hemorrhaging beach community, where there are no longer stores or restaurants, where most people have no gas to cook with, no heat or hot water and no hot food.

That afternoon, a freon-blooded inspector from the city’s Department of Health issued Eustace a notice of violation for not meeting the same food-handling standards as, say, the Four Seasons.

This is beyond outrageous.

This is Emperor Bloomberg’s bureaucracy gone completely mad in a time of death and destruction in the week of Thanksgiving and when the decent people of this city have united to help the unfortunate.

This is what the city of New York did for the relief effort of Sandy victims.

This notice of violation is a violation of human decency.

Mayor Bloomberg should bury his head in shame in the sands of Breezy Point.

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This reminds me of the absurdity during hurricane Katrina, when FEMA firefighters were sitting in Atlanta receiving training on sexual harassment instead of being deployed to New Orleans:

When FEMA called for firefighters for "community service and outreach," 2000 highly-trained firefighters showed up in a staging area in an Atlanta hotel, believing that their skills would be used, or would better be used, for search and rescue operations. The firefighters, who were all paid by FEMA for their time, found themselves undergoing training on community relations, watching videos, and attending seminars on sexual harassment in a hotel, waiting days, in some cases, to be deployed in a secretarial or public relations position. Some firefighters called it a misallocation of resources, others were simply frustrated at the delay.

While Bloomers is the top of the sh*t pile, the agent who wrote that violation is also accountable. . . unless that notice was based on something really, really bad? I'm seeing some well-meaning volunteers doing things that put people at risk; just doing good does not make the doing good. Of course we all know the FDNY is above any question.

And Firefighter Bobby Eustace and his dozens of firefighter volunteer friends just let this piece of shit inspector walk away without forfeiting the use of all of his limbs? This kind of thing would have been handled much differently back in the day.

Unfortunately this has happened many times before to well-meaning, big-hearted people trying to make up for the city's shortcomings in providing aid. If the city was adequately meeting the needs of the unfortunate, then I would somewhat understand the DOH's position. But when the city has the gall to write up violations that they know will result in the needy being turned away, I call that criminal.

So private sector and charitable people are once again proving their worht and the government ineptitude is proving itself. Why in God's name would anyone want more government in their lives? People, do it yourself, and arm yourselves. The end is near.

City administrative workers are the laziest people on earth.Has anyone seen the list of city agencies on the NYC.gov website. There are nearly 200 agencies listed!!! Except for a few vital ones, why do we need most of the others? What do these workers do all day? Seems like the city could save a mint by getting Rid if hundreds if non -essential workers!

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